Just like the time there was a campaign to take the Speedy Gonzales cartoons off the air, because Hispanics would find them offensive. Offensive that the little Mexican guy always wins? They loved him!

natazha:Just like the time there was a campaign to take the Speedy Gonzales cartoons off the air, because Hispanics would find them offensive. Offensive that the little Mexican guy always wins? They loved him!

Lionel Mandrake:"It's pretty horrific," says Ricki Fairley-Brown, president of the multicultural marketing agency Dove Marketing. "Why do they have a white guy from Minnesota faking a Jamaican accent?"

Same reason men dress as women, babies and animals talk and dance, and grannies rap. A big part of humor of humor is having people do things that are unexpected or against type.

And, "pretty horrific??" Man, you are a giant wuss.

Also Minnesota residents often have a thick upper midwest accent. As a Michigan resident I saw the whole Minnesota reference as "You're supposed to have this weird accent, yet the Jetta has made you have this one instead." It's not the world's greatest commercial, but I fail to see how it is offensive.

Land Ark:OtherLittleGuy: Everyone know that Jamaicans are African-American, like any other person of color.

I don't understand how "African-American" became accepted. It seems like it should be horribly offensive since it presumes everyone in Africa is black and every black person is of African decent.

Political correctness has never made sense. If the pattern holds, African-American will soon become offensive and a new term will be pushed as the politically correct term to use. This is what happened to "colored" and "black".

Leave it to Progressives to white knight for people who never wanted their help, particularly when they get to call other people "racists." Anything to prove to the world how Enlightened and Tolerant they are.

FTA : Even more troubled by the spot is Rochelle Newman-Carrasco, chief hispanic marketing strategist at Walton Isaacson, an African-American, Gay/Lesbian and Hispanic agency. "What happens in this ad is that the culture becomes a punch line, and that is offensive."

She's right. Havent Minnesotans suffered enough? A hundred and fiifty five years of oppression shouts, "YES!".

untaken_name:Land Ark: OtherLittleGuy: Everyone know that Jamaicans are African-American, like any other person of color.

I don't understand how "African-American" became accepted. It seems like it should be horribly offensive since it presumes everyone in Africa is black and every black person is of African decent.

Political correctness has never made sense. If the pattern holds, African-American will soon become offensive and a new term will be pushed as the politically correct term to use. This is what happened to "colored" and "black".

"African-American" is kind of a dumb term. Black's never been offensive.